Prof. Haiyan Wang is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering, with a joint appointment between the School of Materials Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University West Lafayette. Her educational experience includes receiving a Bachelor's degree from Nanchang University, Nanchang, China; a Master's degree from the Institute of Metal Research, Shenyang, China; and a Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. Her research experience includes being an Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2010; and Associate Professor from 2013 to 2015; Professor from 2014 to 2016 at the Texas A & M University. Her research focuses on continued investigations into the design and processing of functional nanocomposite thin films for microelectronics, optoelectronics, high-temperature superconductors, solid oxide fuel cells, plasmonics and photonics, ferroelectric and ferromagnetic applications, and radiation-tolerance materials. She has published over 460 journal articles (citation 16000 times, H-index of 59) and presented over 250 invited and contributed talks at various international conferences. She holds 10 patents in the areas of thin film processing and architecture and is a Fellow of ASM International, ACerS, AAAS, and APS.